Theodore Bikel Quotes - Page 2

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• No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

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  Movement, States, Caught

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• Audiences are audiences.

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  Audience

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• After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.

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  Advent, Given, Mass

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• But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

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  Artist, Toil, Culture

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• You can't expect the entire world to come to New York to see you. You have to travel to them.

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  Travel, New York, World

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• As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

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  Art, Government, Abiding

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• Every actor wants to direct and produce, but I made a conscious decision when I was in college to understand the 'business' of 'show business.'

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  Actors, Want, Direct

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.

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  Believe, Principles, Jewish Life

  Theodore Bikel (2014). “Theo: An Autobiography”, p.436, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

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  Grateful, Omission, People

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• Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

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  Country, Risk, Age

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

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  Country, Art, Pride

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• I created the role of Captain Von Trapp.

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  Roles, Captains

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• Accents. I'm very good with accents. I'm exceedingly good.

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  Accents, Very Good

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• You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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  Biography/ Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

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  Retirement, Believe, Tired

  "Theodore Bikel, actor, singer and Broadway star, dies at 91" by Nancy Groves, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2015.

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• John Huston was the kind of director that totally left you alone. Not every actor always does it right, every time, but most of the time he was re-directing someone. He was making tight adjustments, and not even in terms of interpretation because he knew that by the time that the character had been filmed... well, he got it right when he cast you.

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  Character, Directors, Doe

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• You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

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  Laughing, Vacuums, Six Months

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• An actor is supposed to emulate life. Instead, alas, many are imitating other actors. You don't fashion your knowledge of theatre or your approach to a role on the basis of what other actors have done. This kind of thinking is a great danger, especially in dealing with TV producers who frequently say things like, 'This is a Sean Connery type.'

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  Fashion, Thinking, Theatre

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• When something is moving you get that intake of breath and that stillness from the audience.

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  Moving, Audience, Breaths

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• We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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  Book, Attachment, Yellow

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• In my world, history comes down to language and art.

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  Art, World, Language

  “Theodore Bikel, 'Fiddler on the Roof' Star, Dies at 91” by Duane Byrge , Alex Ben Block, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 21, 2015.

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• Despite a large body of work in films, TV, theatre and concerts, I am viewed by many as a Jewish artist. I do not resent the label, except for the fact that I disapprove of labels in general.

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  Artist, Theatre, Labels

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• The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

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  Air, Play, Faults

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• On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.

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  Funny, Ends, Middle

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• I prefer to choose which traditions to keep and which to let go.

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  Letting Go, Tradition

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